Dec. 23, 1922 – J&P Coats 6:0 Ansonia, American Cup (U.S. Open Cup) 4th-round match

Robert Gilmore and William Neilson (two goals), Dick McAvoy and Fred Morley scored for a J&P Coats team that would win the ASL championship in the league’s second season.

The Threadmen had knocked out Saylesville, the Fall River Marksmen and Greystone FC, and would go on to eliminate Worsted Abbot, 1-0. J&P then fell, 3-2, to eventual champion Paterson FC in the semifinals of the U.S. Open Cup. Ansonia had defeated Whitman Mills in the third round.

J&P (21W-5L-2D, 44 points) edged Bethlehem Steel (18W-4L-6D, 42 points) for the ASL championship. Tommy Fleming, who led the Threadmen with 22 goals, helped Philadelphia FC win the 1921-22 ASL title. Fleming, who began his U.S. career with Fore River Shipyards, had led Bethlehem Steel to the 1915 and ’16 U.S. Open Cup titles, would go on to star for the Boston Wonder Workers, then coached Quincy High School.

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